Karel Reisz. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Colin Gardner.
• Other Names: Gardner, Colin
• Contents: List of figuresSeries Editors’ forewordAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Karel Reisz, ‘The last great man in England’2. Reisz the critic3. Free Cinema and the New Left: Momma Don’t Allow (1956), We Are The Lambeth Boys (1959) and March to Aldermaston (1959)4. ‘Kitchen Sink’ realism and the birth of the British ‘New Wave’: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)5. Keeping up with the Truffauts: Night Must Fall (1964)6. Gorilla war: Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)7. Life into art - Reisz and the ‘bio-pic’: Isadora (1968) and Sweet Dreams (1985)8. Reisz in Hollywood: deconstructing existentialism and the counterculture in The Gambler (1974) and Dog Soldiers/Who’ll Stop The Rain (1978)9. A sentimental education: The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)10. Theatre of the absurd: Arthur Miller’s Everybody Wins (1990) and Samuel Beckett’s Act Without Words I (2000)11. ConclusionAppendixTheatre credits and filmographyBibliography
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 791.430233092; Motion pictures -- Great Britain; Motion pictures; Great Britain
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526141583; 1526141582
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